Slavery in the United StatesRoutledge, 2018 M04 24 - 165 páginas Slavery in the United States clarifies the institution of slavery in its historical context. Filler avoids the all too prevalent literary attitude of either treating slavery as an unmitigated nightmare from the past, or regarding it as a way of life which warmly repaid slave and slaveholder. He does not reduce the issue to one of fact and figures, nor does he inject endless hypotheses and analogues. Rather, this finely etched volume encompasses the human implications of slavery and its practices. It emphasizes the distinguished and disreputable elements on both sides of the slavery relationship, and in every part of the United States. Slavery offers peculiar challenges to the student of American life, past and present. It is unrealistic to avoid the human implications of slavery and its practice. It is equally unhelpful to assume glib and partial viewpoints with respect to so all-embracing a system as slavery became. The cause of progress, no less than social science, is not advanced by indifference to patent facts. The civil libertarian who romanticizes black people indiscriminately, and lumps Jefferson Davis with Simon Legree may win popularity with enthusiasts and ideologues. But they will soon find themselves quaint and outmoded. The author reminds us that "the safest approach to slavery is to determine what the institution meant to the country at large; why it flourished as it did, and how it came to be opposed and overthrown." The work includes high quality often neglected readings that permit the reader to form his or her own views. It reveals the best writing on all aspects of the slavery issue, as well as analytic summations by contemporary historians and social researchers. |
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... English flags, was respected in the South for his intense piety. At the other extreme was John Scott, Lord Eldon, Chancellor of England, who declared in Parliament that “the slave state has been sanctioned by parliaments with the wisest ...
... English, French, and other provinces, and citizens of what became the United States of America, perceived life, its duties, and opportunities in particular ways. Those ways changed under the pressure of events and the process of what ...
Louis Filler. slaves separated Catholic French and Spanish from what were mainly Protestant English pioneers and settlers. The Spanish swept through Central America and into the Caribbean and below. They sought the conversion of the ...
... English were less concerned with conversion, though they were to produce notable friends of the Indians, including the saintly John Eliot of Massachusetts. In 1646 he initiated the education of Indians as part of his effort to ...
... English council in New York resolved “that all Indian slaves within this province subject to the King of Spain, that can give an account of their Christian faith and say the Lord's Prayer, be forthwith set at liberty, and sent home by ...
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Negroes and Slavery | |
The Peculiar Institution | |
Effects of Revolutionary and PostRevolutionary Eras | |
Stabilizing the Slave System | |
Slavery as a Positive Good | |
Slavery as a Way of Life | |
The Challenge of Freedom | |
The Verdict of | |
The Continuing Debate | |
READINGS | |
Andrew Jackson Seeks a Runaway | |
His Life and Outlook | |
Spanish and American Slavery Compared | |
James Fenimore Cooper On Slavery in New York | |